February 23, 2018 Karen Gail Miller Conference Center Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus 9750 South 300 West, Sandy, Utah Friday, February 23, 2018 Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus Karen Gail Miller Conference Center #utahoer18 Conference Schedule 8:15 – 9:00 a.m Check in at Registration and Continental Breakfast Karen Gail Miller Conference Center 9:00 – 9:30 a.m Utah: The State of OER 9:30 – 10:30 a.m 10:40 – 11:30 a.m Keynote — Robin DeRosa Breakout Sessions Room 105 Making Writing Open: Preparing the Curriculum to Respond to SLCC’s Diverse Student Body Room 209 Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Deeper Learning Practices for All Students Room 213 Open and Inclusive: Making Sure Your OER Materials Are Accessible to Everyone Room 220/224 Approaches for Student Engagement: Personalized Learning and Customizable Courses Room 226 Initiation: OER Production as Personal and Professional Exploration Room 228 Integrating OER into Gen Ed Classes: A Case Study from the Trenches Room 229 Students Choose Their Own Textbook: Meeting OER Objectives the Old-Fashioned Way 11:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m Lunch Conference 2018 12:40 – 1:30 p.m Breakout Sessions Room 105 Adopting OER for Personal Financial Literacy Room 209 Open for Business: Promoting Southern Utah University’s Multiyear Cross-Curricular Open-Access Initiative Room 213 The Task that Refreshes: Creating an OER for BYU’s Marriott School of Business Room 220/224 Opening the Door to Change: Leading OER Advocacy Efforts in the Library Room 226 Stimulating OER Implementation Room 228 Body of Work: OER in an Integrated Anatomy and FirstYear Writing Class Room 229 Bracing Yourself and Students for the Comments Section: Using OER to Explore Rhetoric on Social Media 1:40 – 2:30 p.m Breakout Sessions Room 105 Bolstering Textbook Affordability at the University of Utah Room 209 Using OER as the Center of Course Design and Gen Ed Pedagogy at SLCC Room 213 Strength in Numbers: A Story of Collaboration Across Institutions Room 220/224 Integrating OER Texts, Interpretative Structures and Contributive Open Pedagogy in an Upper-Division Humanities Course: A Working Model and Case Study; or, Cool Things I Did in My U.S History Course Room 226 From OER Lecture to OER Lab: Using an OER Textbook as the Foundation for Creating a Matching OER Laboratory Manual Room 228 Addressing Challenges in Online Teaching and Learning With OER: Selecting, Implementing and Evaluating Resources Room 229 Using Open Pedagogy in an Upper-Division Mathematics Course 2:30 – 2:50 p.m Dessert Reception 2:50 – 4:00 p.m Concluding Remarks — David Wiley Conference 2018 Robin DeRosa — Keynote Speaker Dr Robin DeRosa enjoys her work teaching in and directing the IDS program at Plymouth State University Her current research focuses on open education and how universities can innovate in order to bring down costs for students, increase interdisciplinary collaboration and student contribution to scholarly knowledge, and refocus the academic world on strengthening the public good Robin is an editor for Hybrid Pedagogy, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education You can learn more about Robin at her website, or follow her on Twitter @actualham David Wiley Dr David Wiley is Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success, reinvigorating pedagogy and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources by schools, community and state colleges, and universities He is also currently the Education Fellow at Creative Commons, an Ashoka Fellow and adjunct faculty in Brigham Young University’s graduate program in Instructional Psychology and Technology, where he leads the Open Education Group (and was previously a tenured associate professor) Breakout Sessions Addressing Challenges in Online Teaching and Learning with OER: Selecting, Implementing and Evaluating Resources Jennifer Quinlan, Carolyn Andrews Observe how a BYU team of faculty, instructional designers and a campus consultant have made OER resources available in various online course offerings Take a look at the motivations behind the team’s approach as well as the benefits and challenges they have experienced Adopting OER for Personal Financial Literacy Kyle Wells Personal Finance Literacy curriculum in secondary education that has traditionally not had a common set of instructor resources now has an option of delivery utilizing an OER text and free online resources Conference 2018 Approaches for Student Engagement: Personalized Learning and Customizable Courses Alyson Indrunas, Dr Anton Tolman, Dr Jessi Hill, Dr Marc Jorgensen This session will feature a show-and-tell from faculty piloting next-generation personalized learning and other OER courseware. This panel will discuss opportunities to explore and evaluate efficacy of personalized learning as well as how they customize their courses Body of Work: OER in an Integrated Anatomy and First-Year Writing Class Dr Lindsey K Roper, Dr John Belk These presenters have proposed an integrated course that would satisfy requirements for both Human Anatomy and English 1010 by both assigning OER as texts and focusing student writing on the production of OER Bolstering Textbook Affordability at the University of Utah Allyson Mower, Heidi Booth, Steven Peck, Cagney Smullin Listen to members from the University of Utah’s Course Material Service Team discuss their purpose and goals as this newly formed team combines efforts to offer affordable resources to students Bracing Yourself and Students for the Comments Section: Using OER to Explore Rhetoric on Social Media Nkenna Onwuzuruoha Experience the journey one professor took in creating and revising an assignment using social media in conjunction with an OER text “What Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and the Beef that Defied Space and Time All Have to Do with How Language Works”? See the motivation behind crafting such an assignment, strengths and weaknesses and select student responses From OER Lecture to OER Lab: Using an OER Textbook as the Foundation for Creating a Matching OER Laboratory Manual Dr Tim Beagley The SLCC Biology Department is currently piloting the new OPENSTAX Microbiology Textbook, but they, along with other institutions, are going one step further by creating an open source lab manual to be piloted during the summer 2018 semester See how this manual incorporates open access student research projects and creative teaching strategies alongside traditional laboratory protocols Initiation: OER Production as Personal and Professional Exploration Ron Christiansen, Clint Johnson While we all know the benefits OER brings to students, this session delves into the reflective nature of OER creation Integrating OER into Gen Ed Classes: A Case Study from the Trenches Dr Laura June Davis This session on teaching and learning with OER will discuss the variety of ways to implement OER in history courses, both general education and upper division, including the use of OER textbooks, student use of OER for research projects and high-impact practices that incorporate OER Conference 2018 Integrating OER Texts, Interpretative Structures and Contributive Open Pedagogy in an Upper-Division Humanities Course: A Working Model and Case Study; or, Cool Things I Did in My U.S History Course Dr Richard Saunders Students read, compared and discussed the differences in approach and content taken by authors in two U.S History survey open textbooks They then were invited to contribute “what was missing” from their interpretive perspective, chapter by chapter Observe what students learned in this open textbook activity Making Writing Open: Preparing the Curriculum to Respond to SLCC’s Diverse Student Body Justin Jory, Ann Fillmore, Jessie Szalay This session highlights the flexibility of SLCC’s new composition curriculum designed around threshold concepts The session details how the OER curriculum was adapted to a learning community paired with GEOG 1700 and how the curriculum was also used in a women’s prison setting Open and Inclusive: Making Sure Your OER Materials Are Accessible to Everyone Christopher Phillips This session will highlight specific practices you can to ensure the learning needs of all students are considered and how you can make sure your learning experiences are open and inclusive Open for Business: Promoting Southern Utah University’s Multi-Year Cross-Curricular Open Access Initiative Rosie Liljenquist SUU has established a four-year program promoting OER across campus with the primary goals to increase student completion, persistence, and ultimately retention by reducing education-related, non-tuition out-of-pocket expenses. This presentation will discuss campus-wide marketing and promotion of OER on campus Opening the Door to Change: Leading OER Advocacy Efforts in the Library Erin Davis This session will explore strategies for implementing successful OER initiatives, including partnerships that may be crucial to a successful OER initiative on your campus Stimulating OER Implementation Anne R Diekema, Dr Matthew S Weeg Learn how the Provost’s Office and the Center of Excellence for Teaching & Leaning at Southern Utah University launched a curriculum innovation grant initiative with OER as one of the four areas of emphasis Application requirements, faculty eligibility, phased compensation, cross-campus collaboration, proposal selection, faculty support and assessment will be discussed Conference 2018 Strength in Numbers: A Story of Collaboration Across Institutions Paul Golisch, Ruth Trygstad, Dr Maggie Cummings, Spencer Bartholomew, Dr Afshin Ghoreishi In this session, a panel comprised of faculty from SLCC, the U of U and Weber State University will share their story of collaboration to create college algebra and trigonometry courses that will be taught at all three institutions Students Choose Their Own Textbook: Meeting OER Objectives the Old Fashioned Way Dr Matt Nickerson Instead of courses having a required textbook, students must get a textbook, but they choose their own with basic guidelines provided. The benefits of this method include better student preparation, improved in-class discussions, more effective group work, and a wider diversity of thought The Task that Refreshes: Creating an OER for BYU’s Marriott School of Business Lisa Thomas Faculty at BYU’s Marriott School of Business partnered with the library to create an open textbook for business communication This presentation will outline the rationale and approach behind this project as well as the realities of funding, creating, managing and assessing an open textbook Using OER as the Center of Course Design and Gen Ed Pedagogy at Salt Lake Community College Dr Ted Moore, Marianne McKnight, Dr Tam Hoskisson, Dr Chris Case, Jeff Brandt A moderated discussion with SLCC history faculty who were involved in the creation of a new HIST 1700 textbook used in traditional classrooms as well as online This will explain challenges and issues considered regarding how to “publish” the textbook and issues of long-term sustainability, further editing and updates The participants also had to address the flexibility of the OER textbook that would be used by faculty with diverse teaching styles. Finally, how students received the text and strategies to ensure OER have academic integrity and legitimacy Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Deeper Learning Practices for All Students Cecilia Weingartner Students are ready to engage with OER learning This session will share data collected regarding students’ online learning and how data can help move faculty toward more open approaches Using Open Pedagogy in an Upper-Division Mathematics Course Dr Andrew Misseldine This workshop explores how an instructor modified an Abstract Algebra course using OER and engaged students with the Open Pedagogy of Renewable Assignments One result is that students were allowed to be creators of content knowledge instead of just consumers of knowledge Special Thanks Our thanks to the following individuals on the USHE OER Committee: Julie Hartley Jason Pickavance Richard Saunders Alyson Mower Jen Hughes Seth Gurell Erin Davis Andrea Scott Collen Packer Kathleen Broeder Jon Glenn Jon Ostler Kelly Peterson-Fairchild Rosalyn Liljenquist Conference Volunteers: Kristin Morley Jenn Balfour Jeff Brandt Ann Filmore Breigh Johanson Deb Mahre Kate North David Rodriquez Sanfiorenzo We appreciate the assistance of the following college organizations and OER partners: Lumen Learning OpenStax SLCC Center for eLearning SLCC Associate Deans Karen Gail Miller Conference Center – Rachelle Brough SLCC Institutional Marketing and Communications – Steve Speckman, Amber Giles Miller Catering SLCC Printing Services Utah: The State of OER Conference Presenters